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Speaker 1: We have breaking political news out of Texas today, where

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Speaker 1: a Democratic candidate for Senate has taken a bold and

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Speaker 1: courageous stand against meat. The stakes could not be higher.

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Speaker 1: We have the details in just a few moments. We'll

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Speaker 1: also have the latest today on the war in Iran.

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Speaker 1: Another top regime official has been eliminated. Lots of action

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Speaker 1: on care Capitol Hill today. Mark Wayne Mullen is in

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Speaker 1: his confirmation hearing for DHS right now. It included a

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Speaker 1: clash with Senator Rand Paul. We've got the audio of that.

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Speaker 1: It is Wednesday, March the eighteenth. Scott Jennings is reporting

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Speaker 1: to you for Salem. We remain on the campus of

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Speaker 1: Arizona State University today in Tempe, Arizona. We have a

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Speaker 1: big show today. Jim Jordan, the House Judiciary Chairman, is here,

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Speaker 1: Aaron McClain from the Art of War podcast, and our

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Speaker 1: has a new book coming out. Plus, we have breaking

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Speaker 1: news all over the place, but we do begin in Texas,

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Speaker 1: where Democrats still have a mess on their hands. The

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Speaker 1: to you before on the bizarre past of US Senate

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Speaker 1: nominee James Tallerico, who previously we told you said he

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Speaker 1: believes there are six genders and that a non binary

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Speaker 1: god offered the Virgin Mary an abortion. But today, today,

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Speaker 1: perhaps he has committed the most unforgivable sin that a

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Speaker 1: candidate can commit in Texas. He has come out against meat.

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Speaker 1: It is a mistake that only a radical Democrat could love.

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Speaker 1: And it's also a reminder that this campaign of tall

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Speaker 1: Rico's is not very well done. We have the audio

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Speaker 1: here James tall Rico says he will solve climate change

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Speaker 1: by taking away brisket from Texans. Take a listen and

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Speaker 3: We have, I think heard more and more issues of

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Speaker 3: also it's, as all of you know, necessary to fight

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Speaker 3: climate change. It is now existential that we try to

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Speaker 3: reduce our meat consumption and that we try to respect

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Speaker 3: animals in all aspects of society. And so I am

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Speaker 3: proud to say that our campaign has officially become a

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Speaker 3: non meat campaig. So we we are only buying vegan

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Speaker 3: know big nonas. They were little nonas and then they

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Speaker 3: we just got our pizza from there today. And so

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Speaker 3: the point is that I think all of us, not

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Speaker 1: It is sort of amusing to this reporter that Democrats

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Speaker 1: don't know a single mail in fact, who talks this way.

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Speaker 1: My guess is neither do you. But Tall Rico isn't

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Speaker 1: exactly rare when it comes to so called moderate Democratic

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Speaker 1: candidates having a bad week up in Maine. The leader

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Speaker 1: in that state's Democratic primary for Senate, Graham Platner has

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Speaker 1: backtracked on his apology for having a Nazi tattoo. You

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Speaker 1: I'm no longer apologizing for that, and his appearances with

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Speaker 1: about five years ago, Platner was openly referring to himself

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Speaker 1: all of this is on top of new statements that

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Speaker 4: You know grim Plattner wrote that women worried about rape

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Speaker 5: Oh, they wind up having sex with someone they don't

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Speaker 6: To avoid rape, women should quote act like an adult

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Speaker 1: I have not seen this.

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Speaker 7: He's a bully.

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Speaker 1: This guy gets off a vibe.

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Speaker 7: Just no way I could.

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Speaker 8: Vote for you.

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Speaker 5: No, Graham Plattner. The closer you look, the worse it gets.

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Speaker 9: I'm Janet Mills, and I approve this message.

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Speaker 1: A nazi who hates women. This is the person who

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Speaker 1: a US House seat is named Bobby Polito, a Tahano

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Speaker 1: It turns out the Democrat. Polito once played a pervert

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Speaker 1: You can see the offensive video on the screen here. Wait,

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Speaker 1: We can't even show it to you. So what do

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Speaker 1: climate change by outlawing barbecue in Texas, Platner, the Nazi

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Speaker 1: the masturbating musician. No wonder the Democratic Party is less

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Speaker 1: these days. In other news, the TSA situation at America's

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Speaker 1: the Today Show reported on it this morning. Listened to

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Speaker 4: The weight getting worse at airports across America.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully you get here early shot.

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Speaker 4: The spring break rush colliding with a mounting TSA staffing shortage,

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Speaker 10: It really is disappointing that the government can't get their

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Speaker 4: So far, more than ten percent of officers have called

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Speaker 5: It's nag.

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Speaker 4: Starting today, Philadelphia International is temporarily closing security checkpoints inside

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Speaker 10: Suggest that we may have to quite literally shut down airports, particularly.

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Speaker 1: There's no real mystery here about why this is happening.

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Speaker 1: Democrats have this shutdown. They care more about keeping illegal

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Speaker 1: Senator Tom Cotton is unveiling legislation today that would denaturalize

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the show. Here on Wednesday, March d eighteenth,

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Speaker 1: Is Wednesday, March eighteenth. Thank you for listening to common

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Speaker 1: thankful for the hospitality here. Operation Epic Fury continues, the

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Speaker 13: Wow, Scott. With an introduction like that, I'll do my best.

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Speaker 13: It's great to be on with you.

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Speaker 1: Yes, you have to live up to this billing now, Aaron,

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Speaker 1: Let's just talk about the latest on Operation Epic Fury.

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Speaker 13: bombing by the US Air Force of these sites. Since then,

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Speaker 13: you haven't seen I saw one report of a strike

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Speaker 13: in the vicinity of Natan's. I've not seen any reports

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Speaker 13: of strikes on the nuclear side in Isfahan. These are

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Speaker 13: the places where we think that highly enriched uranium is

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Speaker 13: likely still buried underground in some fashion. So for me,

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Speaker 13: that's a dog that so far hasn't barked. I'm very

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Speaker 13: curious to see what the plan is there or what's

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Speaker 13: going to come next. And then on regime change, you know, again,

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Speaker 13: the President didn't say that that was a goal for

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Speaker 13: shifted sort of day to day. He's he's he's flexible,

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Speaker 13: as you know, interview to interview, so he's at various

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Speaker 13: points said something like he wants unconditional surrender. Then he

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Speaker 13: clarified that unconditional surrender might be the kind of unconditional

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Speaker 13: surrender where we just determined that they're militarily so weak

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Speaker 13: they can't go on. Well, see, the thing that I

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Speaker 13: think actually absolutely must be done Scott before the President

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Speaker 13: need to reopen the Straight of hoor moves. That was

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Speaker 13: the Iranians best card.

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Speaker 7: They've played it.

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Speaker 13: The practitioners, the naval practitioners, practitioners that I speak to,

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Speaker 13: are confident that it can be reopened, but it will

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Speaker 13: take some time, and I don't see any way to

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Speaker 13: mission accomplished without without opening that back up.

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Speaker 1: Do you believe that it is a mistake for or

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Speaker 1: our international Well, i'll call them allies for the time being,

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Speaker 1: but with a number of countries that were typically allied

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Speaker 1: with or saying no, we don't want to have any

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Speaker 1: part of it. Wouldn't it be better if they got

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Speaker 1: involved here and helped us keep the strait of horror

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Speaker 1: moves open? I mean, it does, after all, affect the

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Speaker 1: entire world, does it not?

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Speaker 13: Yeah, you know that energy price goes up kind of

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Speaker 13: no matter whether you get your oil. You know, the

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Speaker 13: United States doesn't really get much in the way of

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Speaker 13: energy resources out of the Persian Golf anymore, but the

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Speaker 13: price goes up no matter what. Obviously, a lot of

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Speaker 13: these countries have a direct interest. A lot of this

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Speaker 13: stuff goes to Asia, where our partners there certainly have

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Speaker 13: a direct interest. We could certainly use the help. And

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Speaker 13: the reason we could use the help is the kind

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Speaker 13: of escort operation that you'll see in the Strait I

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Speaker 13: predict a few weeks from now, which, by the way,

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Speaker 13: we've done before. The United States Navy did this exact

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Speaker 13: thing in this exact place in the late nineteen eighties.

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Speaker 13: The Ranians were behaving very similarly. They were blowing up

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Speaker 13: ships in the Golf, they were dropping mines in the

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Speaker 13: Strait of Hormuz, and in nineteen eighty seven President Reagan

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Speaker 13: ordered an operation called Operation Earnest Will. And you know,

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Speaker 13: it's pretty straightforward in its concept. You gather a group

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Speaker 13: British and the French navies helped, and like a mother

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Speaker 13: duck and her ducklings, you take those tankers and other

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Speaker 13: kinds of commercial traffic through the Strait, and you have

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Speaker 13: to have your escort pretty close to the ships you're

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Speaker 13: guarding because in the Strait the space is so constrained

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Speaker 13: that the reaction times that you know, the the amount

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Speaker 13: incoming is very short, which means you need a lot

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Speaker 13: of escort ships. The more escort ships you have, the

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Speaker 13: faster the whole operation goes. At the peak of Arnezuela,

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Speaker 13: there were dozens of major American naval vessels involved, so

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Speaker 13: he would be appreciated.

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Speaker 1: Aaron McLain, that's the voice you're hearing. He is the

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Speaker 1: host of the School of War podcast, National Security Expert

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Speaker 1: here with us on the Scott Jennings Show. I want

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Speaker 1: to go back to the nuclear issue because what you

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Speaker 1: get as pushback from the left on this operation is that, oh,

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump told us that he obliterated all of Iran's

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Speaker 1: nuclear capabilities last summer. Now he's claiming that the Iranians

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Speaker 1: were an imminent nuclear threat. I want to play to

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Speaker 1: you a clip from this morning. This is CIA Director

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Speaker 1: Ratcliffe up on Capitol Hill talking to the Senate rounds

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Speaker 1: of South Dakota about the Iranian nuclear ambitions. Let's hear

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Speaker 1: Ratcliffe and then discuss in cut twenty two.

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Speaker 12: I think it's been very clear from the beginning that

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Speaker 12: even though there were supposedly diplomatic activities going on behind

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Speaker 12: the scenes, it was very clear, and I just ask

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Speaker 12: if you would disagree or agree with me on this.

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Speaker 5: It was very clear that Iran.

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Speaker 12: While they were talking, they had no intentions of following

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Speaker 12: through diplomatically with eliminating any of their nuclear aspirations.

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Speaker 14: Correct, Senator, that's correct, And in the classified session we

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Speaker 14: can go into detail, but you've characterized it right. Diplomatically,

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Speaker 14: they were saying one thing, the intelligence was reflecting quite

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Speaker 14: the contrary.

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Speaker 1: Aaron. Maybe you could take his threat through Operation Midnight

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Speaker 1: Hammer and the obliteration of these nuclear facilities to them

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Speaker 1: sitting down the Iranians with whitcough and saying well, we

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Speaker 1: have enough material to make eleven nuclear bombs, to the

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Speaker 1: action right now. Kind of run the thread from these

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Speaker 1: moments and why it is in fact an imminent threat

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Speaker 1: to the Western world. It's not just the United States,

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Speaker 1: it's everybody.

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Speaker 13: Well, look, you can do grievous damage to a series

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Speaker 13: of military complexes, like objectively we did in June of

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Speaker 13: twenty twenty five, and still have elements remaining that are

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Speaker 13: of concern in which you can't really destroy with a

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Speaker 13: bombing campaign, unless, of course, ultimately achieve some kind of

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Speaker 13: regime change. Is policy will. If Ali Khamene's will are

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Speaker 13: now his son Mostaba's will is to re establish this program, Well,

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Speaker 13: that's a fact on the ground that you have to

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Speaker 13: deal with, and it is generally assumed established. Everyone works

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Speaker 13: basically on the premise that buried underground at one or

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Speaker 13: more of these sites is the highly enriched uranium that

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Speaker 13: is the sort of basic ingredient of the bomb. There

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Speaker 13: are other items as well. They are these highly specialized centrifuges,

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Speaker 13: some of which may have survived, but it's the highly

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Speaker 13: enriched uranium that is very difficult, of course to refine

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Speaker 13: to that level that is of greatest interest. The general

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Speaker 13: thinking is that it is underground in circumstances, it's not

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Speaker 13: publicly known exactly what the nature of underground really means.

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Speaker 13: You know, how much rubble is there, how deep is it,

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Speaker 13: how many you know, thick doors are closed, and how

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Speaker 13: do you get to it? Like that's not been plausibly

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Speaker 13: accounted for in any source that I have seen, but

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Speaker 13: at Isfahan, probably at Natan's as well, some of this

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Speaker 13: material still exists. So I think, yes, one, if you

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Speaker 13: assume that the Islamic Republic is going to continue and

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Speaker 13: that they are going to have an interest in restarting

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Speaker 13: their program at some point, you are going to have

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Speaker 13: to deal with that issue. I also think, by the way,

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Speaker 13: if you think that state collapse on some level is

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Speaker 13: one possible outcome of either of this military campaign or

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Speaker 13: just just possible in the years ahead in Iran, well

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Speaker 13: then you have kind of a post Soviet Union situation

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Speaker 13: that you need to contemplate. Like anyone with a bulldozer

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Speaker 13: presumably could get down there and get this stuff with

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Speaker 13: enough gumption and will, and it clearly is in the

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Speaker 13: interest of the United States. But as you point out, Scott,

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Speaker 13: the world to render that stuff safe one way or

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Speaker 13: the other.

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Speaker 1: That's Aaron McLain, host of the School of War podcast erin.

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Speaker 1: I know we only booked you for one segment, but

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Speaker 1: I have to say I'm enjoying this conversation. It's extremely insightful.

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Speaker 1: If you wouldn't mind, why don't you stick around through

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Speaker 1: this commercial break and we'll finish off this chat because

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Speaker 1: I want to hear how you think this is going

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Speaker 1: to end, and that's what most Americans want to know.

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Speaker 1: How long and let's see how it's going to end.

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Speaker 1: We'll take a break here. I'm going to give you

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Speaker 1: a quick note, by the way, from our friends at

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Speaker 1: the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. As you know,

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Speaker 1: we're discussing Operation Epic Fury, and in Israel, in the

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Speaker 1: Holy Land, the missiles do continue to rain down on

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Speaker 1: civilian populations. It's times like these where freedom and faith

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Speaker 1: go from abstract to concrete ideas upon which we depend

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Speaker 1: and upon which the Israelis and our friends over there depend.

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Speaker 1: That's where IFCJ comes in. They're preparing large scale distributions

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Speaker 1: of food, first aid, and emergency essentials for this very moment.

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Speaker 1: They're stockpiling these supplies in the bombshelters and in the hospitals.

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Speaker 1: And it's really Israel's most vulnerable, the sick, the elderly,

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Speaker 1: families with children that depend on the Fellowship at times

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Speaker 1: like these, I am standing with Israel. I want you

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Speaker 1: to stand with Israel, and the best way to do

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Speaker 1: that is to go to SUPPORTIFCJ dot org. Support IFCJ

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Speaker 1: dot org SUPPORTIFCJ dot org stand with Israel in prayer

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Speaker 1: as we all face down the Iranian terror regime. More

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Speaker 1: with Aaron maclain when we come back. It's Scott Jennings

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Speaker 1: on Salem. Stay with us.

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Speaker 11: The conversation said, stories you simply won't hear from the

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Speaker 11: mainstream media.

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Speaker 5: It's The Scott Jenny Show.

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Speaker 1: Wednesday, March eighteenth, A deep dive with Aaron McLain, host

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Speaker 1: of the School of War podcast, on the ongoing operation

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Speaker 1: Epic Fury. Taulci Gabber, the Director of National Intelligence, is

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Speaker 1: on Capitol Hill this morning testifying about the war and

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Speaker 1: other issues. Let's hear Tulsi and Cut eighteen the icssses.

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Speaker 15: The regime in Iran appears to be intact, but largely

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Speaker 15: degraded due to attacks on its leadership and military capabilities.

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Speaker 15: Its conventional military power projection capabilities have largely been destroyed,

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Speaker 15: leaving limited options. Iran's strategic position has been significantly degraded.

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Speaker 15: The US led maximum pressure campaign and snap back of

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Speaker 15: European sanctions added additional pressure to an already bleak Iranian economy,

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Speaker 15: resulting in mass protests earlier this year that Tehran suppressed

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Speaker 15: by killing thousands of protesters.

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Speaker 1: Aaron, you hear Tulsi and everybody in our government saying

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Speaker 1: the same thing. The military operation is really successful. We're

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Speaker 1: destroying all of our Here's my question, how do you

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Speaker 1: know when to stop? You know, when do you know

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Speaker 1: that the moment has arrived that you can't really do

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Speaker 1: anything else. You've destroyed every target, you've met these objectives.

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Speaker 1: What's your you know, to the average person who's not

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Speaker 1: a military strategist or an expert on this, what's the

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Speaker 1: answer to that question?

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Speaker 13: Yeah, it's It's obviously the question of the day, Scott,

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Speaker 13: It's a great question. Let me give you a couple

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Speaker 13: thoughts and response that kind of come from what the

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Speaker 13: Iranians need to achieve. Let's think about that for a second,

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Speaker 13: and then we can understand what the United States and

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Speaker 13: Israel would need to achieve. What the Iranians fundamentally need

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Speaker 13: to do is survive. If they survive, and if in

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Speaker 13: addition to surviving, they can tell some plausible story that

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Speaker 13: the United States and Israel have failed, that in some

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Speaker 13: way they've come out of this stronger. It's a hard

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Speaker 13: story to tell because I think the Director of National

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Speaker 13: Intelligence is correct there. They've they've been pretty battered. They've

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Speaker 13: certainly been battered on the missile front, they've been battered

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Speaker 13: on the naval front, a bunch of other conventional military

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Speaker 13: fronts as well. Their leadership's taking big hits. But let's say,

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Speaker 13: for example, that they are able to interdict successfully and

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Speaker 13: repeatedly in the Straits of Hormuz, interdict commercial traffic in

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Speaker 13: the Straits of Hormus in the months to come. I

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Speaker 13: think that's a good story for them and a bad

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Speaker 13: story for the United States, which is why I really

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Speaker 13: do think President Trump is going to need to get

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Speaker 13: the straight reopened with an escort operation before he can

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Speaker 13: sort of call this game, or at least this portion

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Speaker 13: of the game, you know, just sort of gaming it out,

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Speaker 13: thinking about sort of how President Trump sees the world,

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Speaker 13: how he sort of thinks in terms of narratives and stories.

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Speaker 13: I could imagine a world where in the weeks to come,

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Speaker 13: you see escort operations beginning in the Strait. The condition

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Speaker 13: to set to do that is they have to reduce

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Speaker 13: the stockpiles of Iranian anti ship cruise missiles, drones, drone boats, etc.

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Speaker 13: The kind of stuff that will go after the ships

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Speaker 13: just twenty four hours ago. Once that's done, you see

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Speaker 13: the escorts going. And then I think at that point

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Speaker 13: nuclear stuff's buried underground. I'm calling it for now. Maybe

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Speaker 13: the Israelis you keep doing what you're doing, keep going

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Speaker 13: after the regime, but we're done for now. I could

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Speaker 13: also imagine a world scott in which you see the

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Speaker 13: of big punctuation mark to close it off, and that

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Speaker 13: could take any number of forms. If he were able

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Speaker 13: to successfully kill Mostaba, for example, the new supreme leader,

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Speaker 13: the son of the former Ali Kamana Supreme leader, that

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Speaker 13: would be one such inflection point. A successful raid on

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Speaker 13: the nuclear sites, risky though that may be, and that

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Speaker 13: could easily be one of the riskiest and sort of

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Speaker 13: largest scale special operations in American history. If in fact

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Speaker 13: the President orders it. That could be another one. Seizing

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Speaker 13: carg Island, the key island out in the Persian Gulf

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Speaker 13: through which Iran exports most of its energy resources today,

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Speaker 13: that could be another one, or destroying those facilities. That

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Speaker 13: has some real cons along with its pros. But I

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Speaker 13: can imagine this is we're in the realm of speculation,

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Speaker 13: strategic speculation now, Scott. But I can imagine a world

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Speaker 13: event that the White House can point to and say

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Speaker 13: take that Iran. That's the exclamation mark in the end

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Speaker 13: of this operation. By the way, the Israelis they're not

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Speaker 13: letting their foot off the gas anytime soon. They're going

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Speaker 13: to continue with their policy of regime Chams, you're already

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Speaker 13: pretty weakened. Let's see how you like that in the weeks, months,

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Speaker 13: maybe years to come. But we're done for now.

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Speaker 1: Well the Israelis, I mean, for them, this is the

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Speaker 1: end of October the seventh, and they're not going to

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Speaker 1: permit Iran to ever reconstitute itself in any way, shape

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Speaker 1: or form that permits these proxies to come back and

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Speaker 1: wage the kind of terrible attacks on Israel. That we

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Speaker 1: saw on October the seventh. I imagine, Aaron, we're going to

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Speaker 1: see some sort of groups of countries in the Strait.

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Speaker 1: We're going to see groups of countries with monitoring of

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Speaker 1: Iran long term. I mean they are religious fanatics after all,

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Speaker 1: They're never truly going to stop, and they'll have to

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Speaker 1: be watched forever. You can hear Aaron McLain on the

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Speaker 1: School of War podcast. Very experienced guy. He knows of

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Speaker 1: what he speaks. I highly recommend it if you're stedd

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Speaker 1: in this and other military issues. Aaron McLain, host of

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Speaker 1: the School of War podcast. Check it out erin Thanks

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Speaker 1: for coming by the Scott Jennings Show. We're done for

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Speaker 1: this hour. We'll take a break. More next hour, common

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Speaker 1: Sense for the American people. Stay with us. Okay, all

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Speaker 1: aboard for the second hour here on Wednesday, March eighteenth,

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Speaker 1: live from Arizona State University. It's common Sense for the

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Speaker 1: American people. Scott Jennings is your host. Quick Check of

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Speaker 1: the headlines, and Senator Mark Wayne Mullen upon Capitol Hill today,

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Speaker 1: this time in his capacity as President Trump's nominee to

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Speaker 1: run the Department of Homeland Security. This is his confirmation hearing.

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Speaker 1: Rand Paul of Kentucky is the chairman of the Relevant

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Speaker 1: Committee here. There is no love loss between Rand and

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Speaker 1: Mark Wayne, and right out of the gate they were

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Speaker 1: into it. Let's listen to cut twenty four.

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Speaker 16: In fact, you said get your paperwork in. It's got

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Speaker 16: to be in three works three days in between.

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Speaker 9: You you offer you no apology, sir, And you offer

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Speaker 9: no apology today and no regrets. Uh, haven't I owned

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Speaker 9: the word apologized? Haven't heard the word regret. Haven't heard

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Speaker 9: I misspoke and it was heated and I made a

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Speaker 9: mistake actually in any of those words, sir.

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Speaker 16: I actually it wasn't heated. And I'm not apologizing for point.

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Speaker 1: Not your coodntor goodn't. So you're you're jolly well fine.

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Speaker 9: And you want the American public and the people up

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Speaker 9: here to vote that may or may not vote for you,

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Speaker 9: to know that you supported the felonious violent attack on

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Speaker 9: me from behind.

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Speaker 16: I did not say I supported it. I said I

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Speaker 16: understood it. There's a difference.

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Speaker 9: It's that means you really didn't approve of it, just

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Speaker 9: completely understand it. What do you think most people would

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Speaker 9: interpret completely understand to be support for or a condemnation

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Speaker 9: of the violence.

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Speaker 16: Sir as I said, we can. We can have our differences.

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Speaker 16: It's not going to keep me from doing my job

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Speaker 16: as Secretary of Homeland Security. I'm going to secure Kentucky

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Speaker 16: and take care of Kentucky. As if this mudgel I am, if.

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Speaker 9: This were a one off, it would be one thing.

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Speaker 9: If you just disliked me so much that you approved

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Speaker 9: of violence against me, people could just write it off. Well,

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Speaker 9: maybe they hate each other, but really there's a pattern

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Speaker 9: of this.

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Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and roll the tape. Okay. That was

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Speaker 1: ran Paul questioning Mark Wayne Mullen in his confirmation hearing.

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Speaker 1: Ran Paul doesn't like some of the statements that Mullen

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Speaker 1: has made about rand in the past, and that's spilled

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Speaker 1: out into the hearing today. It does seem like Mullen

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Speaker 1: has the votes to be confirmed, both in committee and

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Speaker 1: on the Senate floor. President Trump is at Dover Air

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Speaker 1: Force Base today for a dignified Remains transfer. Vice President Vance,

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Speaker 1: traveling in Michigan, gave the crowd there his political assessment

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Speaker 1: of the Democratic Party. Let's hear that and cut nineteen.

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Speaker 17: It'll celebrate American victories. They don't vote for lower taxes

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Speaker 17: for American workers. They don't seem to be happy when

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Speaker 17: America is doing well. And fundamentally, the reason I'm here

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Speaker 17: is to get us to remember we've got an election.

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Speaker 17: It seems like it's very far off, but the reality

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Speaker 17: is in just about six months, you're going to be

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Speaker 17: asked to go to the polls and you're going to

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Speaker 17: be presented a question. Do you support the party that

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Speaker 17: fights for fraud and illegal immigration or do you support

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Speaker 17: the Republican party that fights for you, for lower taxes

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Speaker 17: and for good jobs. Right here in.

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Speaker 1: Mission, Vice President Vance there continuing the President's argument about

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Speaker 1: normal versus crazy, which is a great way to lead

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Speaker 1: into our conversation this hour, and the topic is this,

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Speaker 1: do Democrats want to be normal? There is a new

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Speaker 1: survey analysis of today's Democratic coalition and it comes to

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Speaker 1: us from the Manhattan Institute and the author of that

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Speaker 1: is Jesse arm Jesse, thanks for joining us here on

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Speaker 1: the Scotchtting Show. Tell us about the survey, the methodology,

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Speaker 1: and how you broke up the Democratic Coalition in all

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Speaker 1: this polling debt. It's quite fascinating.

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Speaker 7: Well, thanks very much for having me, Scott.

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Speaker 5: It's great to be with you, I.

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Speaker 18: Was pretty excited to hear those response, those comments from

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Speaker 18: Vice President Vance right in my home area of Auburn Hills, Michigan.

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Speaker 7: I've got Detroit right on my wall back over there.

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Speaker 18: I believe he also called it the hardest working state

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Speaker 18: a guy from Ohio to state.

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Speaker 7: So I give him. I give him credit for that.

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Speaker 1: Tough for the vice president, no doubt that he had

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Speaker 1: to choke on that a little, but Michigan is a

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Speaker 18: I like Michigan Mason blue as it appears on my

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Speaker 18: wall over there. But nevertheless, I appreciate the comments from

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Speaker 18: the Vice president. Look, here's what the Manhattan It's the

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Speaker 18: two polling that we did makes very clear there's a

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Speaker 18: real disconnect between the Democratic voters who people imagine and

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Speaker 18: the Democratic voters that actually exist. Okay, so the dominant

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Speaker 18: narrative is that the Democratic base is this coalition of

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Speaker 18: socialist revolutionaries and woke militants. But that's not what the

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Speaker 18: data actually shows. So we went out and surveyed two

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Speaker 18: six hundred Democratic voters and Harris supporters, and what did

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Speaker 18: we find that a plurality, something like thirty eight percent

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Speaker 18: actually say the party should move toward the ideological center.

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Speaker 18: Just twenty two percent want to see it move further

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Speaker 18: to the left, and by a more than two to

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Speaker 18: one margin, they say that they want leaders who prioritize

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Speaker 18: effective governing as opposed to just fighting Trump all the time.

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Speaker 18: So the media Democratic voter isn't asking for a more

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Speaker 18: radical party. They're asking for something that's actually a lot

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Speaker 18: more normal, closer to the kind of moderation that we

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Speaker 18: heard in the Clinton here era. I think you're actually

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Speaker 18: trying to hear some politicians, maybe like Gavin Newso Mountain, California,

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Speaker 18: try and gesture toward this, albeit in his case not

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Speaker 18: very convincingly given the kind of trash heap he's governed

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Speaker 18: over in his time as a Democratic executive.

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Speaker 7: But the reality still remains the same.

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Speaker 18: The problem isn't the Democratic voters being too extreme, it's

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Speaker 7: A party that actually reflects them in Washington.

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Speaker 1: Well, you just raised the question that I'm going to

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Speaker 1: ask you, and that is it may be that there

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Speaker 1: are some Democratic voters out there who are wishing for

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Speaker 1: normal sadly, their party has been hijacked by leaders who

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Speaker 1: are anything but normal. In fact, they are quite abnormal

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Speaker 1: on a number of issues, whether it's on illegal immigration,

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Speaker 1: trans issues, DEI we're hearing today that James tallerco in

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Speaker 1: Texas wants to ban meet to fix climate change. I mean,

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Speaker 1: their party is nominating and electing people who are not normal,

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Speaker 1: and they do take extreme positions. Why is it do

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Speaker 1: you think that rank and file Democrats who prefer a

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Speaker 1: more centrist politics have allowed their party to be hijacked

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Speaker 1: by these progressive radicals Because look around Washington, DC. I mean,

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Speaker 1: the only normal Democrat in Washington maybe John Fetterman. I

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Speaker 1: interviewed Ram Emmanuel on this show this week. He's somewhat normal.

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Speaker 1: Outside of that, I don't see a lot of normalcy

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Speaker 1: at the top echelon of the Democratic Party, do you.

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Speaker 18: You're exactly right, Scott, Ram is fairly normal. John Fetterman

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Speaker 18: my dirty little secret.

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Speaker 7: But you raised meal a good question.

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Speaker 18: So if the Democratic voters are this moderate, why does

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Speaker 18: the party look so different? And the answer is that

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Speaker 18: the institutional ecosystem. Okay, stay with me here, that governs

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Speaker 18: democratic politics and has for the last couple of decades.

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Speaker 18: Is something that is totally inorganic. It's been this rise

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Speaker 18: the George Soros types, and they're aligned unions that exert

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Speaker 18: an enormous amount of influence over candidate recruitment, messaging, and

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Speaker 18: setting the real policy priorities that they're going to go

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Speaker 18: out and campaign on. Right democratic voters, a majority of

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Speaker 18: them do not support transgender men participating in biological female sports.

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Speaker 18: And yet it's a litmus test that all of these

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Speaker 18: groups that control democratic politics demand of the politicians that

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Speaker 18: they're going to run for office if they want the

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Speaker 18: money from these actors. So the incentives push you toward escalation,

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Speaker 18: not moderation. And it's often safer to echo the loudest

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Speaker 18: voices than to represent the quieter instincts of your own, actual,

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Speaker 18: real life voters. And there is also an economic layer

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Speaker 18: here that's important to factor in. A lot of people

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Speaker 18: in this country benefit from this ecosystem materially. They have

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Speaker 18: jobs that rely on it. They work at these nonprofits

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Speaker 18: or they're in public sector unions that rely upon government

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Speaker 18: spending as much money as possible with no accounting for

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Speaker 18: actual efficiencies.

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Speaker 7: There's not a This is not the Doze constituency.

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Speaker 18: Okay, and it creates a real patronage politics that makes

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Speaker 1: and our airline system is in crisis. Here to discuss,

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Speaker 1: Jim Jordan, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee from Ohio. Congressman,

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Speaker 1: I know you are frustrated, like a lot of Americans

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Speaker 1: the dire situation with TSA and the impacts on our

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Speaker 10: Yeah, brought to you by Democrats in the United States

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Speaker 10: Congress at a time when we have a military operation

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Speaker 10: going on.

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Speaker 1: In Iran.

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Speaker 10: I mean, this is how ridiculous the Democrat Party has become.

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Speaker 1: And then you add to it all the.

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Speaker 10: Other crazy policies when it comes to when it comes

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Speaker 10: to immigration, sanctuary cities, and everything else. This is just

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Speaker 10: just that, just crazy.

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Speaker 1: So we've heard that last night the White House and

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Speaker 1: Senate Democrats exchanged ideas about how to end this. We've

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Speaker 1: not heard any announcements on that today. It seems to

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Speaker 1: me the Democratic demands here though on immigration policy are

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Speaker 1: not acceptable. I mean, they effectively want to tie the

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Speaker 1: hands of the federal government when it comes to deporting

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Speaker 1: violent illegal aliens. We cannot accept that.

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Speaker 10: No, the bottom line is they don't want anyone deport it.

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Speaker 10: I mean we knew this by four years of what

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Speaker 10: we saw under Joe Biden. They led in eight to

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Speaker 10: ten million people. We all remember seeing the folks camped

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Speaker 10: out under the bridges down there in South Texas. I mean,

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Speaker 10: this is what they want. They want open borders, they

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Speaker 10: want to abolish ICE. I mean, think about this. ICE

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Speaker 10: agents have been spit on, sworn at, harassed, track doc assaulted,

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Speaker 10: death threats for them and their family. Now they say,

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Speaker 10: oh that's not enough.

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Speaker 1: We want to get rid of the whole thing.

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Speaker 10: I mean, they don't want any enforcement, they don't want

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Speaker 10: any deportation, and they want this sanctuary city jurisdiction, sanctuary

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Speaker 10: jurisdiction policies around the country. It makes no sense. So yeah,

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Speaker 10: that's where they are and all that. They want all

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Speaker 10: that and at the same time, don't fund DHS, don't

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Speaker 10: fund the TSA agents. At a time, we've had what

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Speaker 10: three four terrorist attacks in the last couple of weeks,

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Speaker 10: while we're in a military operation in Iran. That's craziness.

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Speaker 10: You define that is craziness. That is what we're seeing

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Speaker 10: though from today's Democrat party.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about DHS for a moment. Leadership. Mark Wayne

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Speaker 1: Mullen and his confirmation hearing today. He got into it

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Speaker 1: with Ran Paul. It feels like he's got the votes.

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Speaker 1: Are you confident in Mark Wayne Mullen's ability to lead

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Speaker 1: the agency?

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Speaker 8: Yeah?

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Speaker 10: No, I sure Ram. Mark Wayne was a former colleague

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Speaker 10: of bars here in the House. Then of course went

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Speaker 10: to the Senate. Great United States senator from the state

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Speaker 10: of Oklahoma. This is the guy that President wantsk Mark

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Speaker 10: Wayne will do a great job, and I think he'll

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Speaker 10: get confirmed. I understand there was some personal, you know issues,

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Speaker 10: There are differences between Senator Paul and Senator Mark Waynemullen,

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Speaker 10: but I think Mark Wayn will be great.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about Ohio politics briefly before we have to

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Speaker 1: go to Congressman, I saw a little polgue this week

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Speaker 1: showing pretty tight races for both governor and US Senate.

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Speaker 1: How are you feeling about the political situation in Ohio

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Speaker 1: for the Republicans?

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Speaker 10: No, I feel good. I mean our state. President Trump

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Speaker 10: has changed Ohio. You know, you know politics gott Ohio

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Speaker 10: used to be this the bell Weather state. I mean

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Speaker 10: it was a fifty to fifty state. Now, I mean

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Speaker 10: President Trump won Ohio in sixteen by eight and a half.

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Speaker 10: He won it in twenty by eight and a half.

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Speaker 10: He won it in twenty four by eleven and a half.

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Speaker 10: So we feel like our state's in good position. Senator

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Speaker 10: Houston is doing a good job. The Bake Rahamaswami, our

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Speaker 10: good editorial candidate, is doing a good job getting around

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Speaker 10: the state. I think President Trump will be in our

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Speaker 10: state this fall, which will help the turnout. So it's

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Speaker 10: life as long as I think President Trump is there

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Speaker 10: firing up you know, our voters in the Buckeye State.

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Speaker 10: I think we'll be fine in both of those races.

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Speaker 10: We want to make sure Senator Eustead stays in the Senate.

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Speaker 10: He's doing a good job, and we don't want Shared

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Speaker 10: Brown coming back and all his left wing policies. So again,

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Speaker 10: I think the President will be in our state hopefully

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Speaker 10: this fall. That'll help with turn out. I think we'll win.

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Speaker 1: Congressman, last question, where are we on a legislative agenda?

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Speaker 1: When we were together with the House conference in Florida

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Speaker 1: a few days ago. There was a lot of talk

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Speaker 1: about budget reconciliation two point zero. It seemed like most

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Speaker 1: people wanted to do that. That's the easiest way to

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Speaker 1: get something out of the Senate. There were a few naysayers,

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Speaker 1: where are you on it and where do you think

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Speaker 1: we're headed on an agenda for the rest of the year.

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Speaker 10: Well, I do think we should do it. We shouldn't

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Speaker 10: waste this opportunity. We should do it to further scale

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Speaker 10: back ridiculous spending, to address this spraud issue which is

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Speaker 10: now becoming so prevalent around the country. We've seen Minnesota,

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Speaker 10: we know what's going on in California. So I think

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Speaker 10: that makes sense, and use the supplemental that's coming for

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Speaker 10: our troops and to replenge some of our supplies for

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Speaker 10: to require reconciliation to get that done.

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Speaker 1: Jim Jordan is the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.

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Speaker 1: He represents Ohio in the US House. Congressman, thanks for

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Speaker 1: coming on the show today. We love your updates. Appreciate you, you.

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Speaker 10: Bet, thank you, Scott.

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Speaker 1: Take care all right when we come back here on

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Speaker 1: the Scott Jennings Show. Really excited about this next conversation.

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Speaker 1: me now, an old friend and excellent vital member of

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Speaker 1: remind you of the day she torched Ivy League presidents

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Speaker 1: Semitism on campus. Let's play these bangers from that glorious hearing.

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Speaker 1: Start with cut two.

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Speaker 8: This is unacceptab miss micgil. I'm going to give you

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Speaker 8: one more opportunity for the world to see your answer.

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Speaker 8: Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate penscod of

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Speaker 8: conduct when it comes to bullying and harassment?

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Speaker 7: Yes?

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Speaker 8: Or no?

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Speaker 19: It can be harassment.

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Speaker 8: The answer is yes, and there have been multiple marches

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Speaker 8: at Harvard with students chanting, quote there is only one

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Speaker 8: solution into fada revolution and quote globalize the Intofada. Is

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Speaker 8: that correct?

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Speaker 19: I've heard that thoughtless, reckless and hateful language on our campus.

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Speaker 8: So based upon your testimony, you understand that this call

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Speaker 8: for intefada is to commit genocide against the Jewish people

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Speaker 8: in Israel and globally.

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Speaker 5: Correct.

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Speaker 19: I will say again that type of hateful speech is

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Speaker 19: personally abhorrent to me.

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Speaker 8: Do you believe that type of hateful speech is contrary

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Speaker 8: to Harvard's code of conduct? Or is it allowed at Harvard.

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Speaker 8: It is at odds with the values of Harvard. Can

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Speaker 8: you not say that it is against the code of

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Speaker 8: conduct at Harvard.

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Speaker 1: I will never forget this. This was one of the

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Speaker 1: greatest moments in the last twenty years in the anals

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Speaker 1: of congressional hearings. Our guest is at least dephonic. She

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Speaker 1: has a book coming out on this subject. It's called

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Speaker 1: Poisoned IVS, The Inside account of the academic and moral

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Speaker 1: rot at America's elite universities. Elise, welcome to the show.

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Speaker 1: Really honored to have you.

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Speaker 8: Today, Scott, great to be with you, and even hearing

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Speaker 8: those clips a few years later, it is stunning. It

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Speaker 8: is the reason why it's the most watched congressional testimony

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Speaker 8: in history with over one billion views. And by the way,

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Speaker 8: those two university presidents of Penn and Harvard are former

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Speaker 8: presidents because of that hearing.

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Speaker 1: That's exactly right. When a lot of people in our world, Elise,

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Speaker 1: are asking for accountability, You're one of the few politicians

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Speaker 1: that went out and got some. And that's why I

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Speaker 1: think this book is going to sell like crazy. It's

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Speaker 1: called Poisoned IVS. You've written an entire book here about

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Speaker 1: what you uncover this rot going on at America's elite universities.

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Speaker 1: Tell us about the book. I know it comes out

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Speaker 1: in a couple of weeks. I want to hear how

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Speaker 1: you've written it, how you decided to write it, how

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Speaker 1: we can get it. Tell the listeners, because I think

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Speaker 1: this is going to be a musk grab for everybody

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Speaker 1: who loves the Scott Jennings show.

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Speaker 14: Well.

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Speaker 8: I wrote Poison Divies because, as I just mentioned Scott,

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Speaker 8: this was the hearing heard around the world. It was

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Speaker 8: over one billion views, and people, frankly, no matter what

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Speaker 8: their political affiliation, people understood in a moment that American

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Speaker 8: higher education was on the wrong track. At our most

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Speaker 8: elite schools, Harvard, Mit, pen, the lack of moral clarity

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Speaker 8: was stunning for the world to see, and it led

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Speaker 8: to an earthquake that we are still undergoing in higher education.

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Speaker 8: It led to a congressional subpoenas being issued, a very

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Speaker 8: fulsome investigation that uncovered not only the rod of anti

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Speaker 8: Semitism that is deep into these institutions, but frankly anti Americanism.

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Speaker 8: These same pro Hamas encampments that were shouting death to

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Speaker 8: Israel were also shouting death to America. The book also

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Speaker 8: highlights stories of American Jewish students and what they faced

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Speaker 8: on these campuses, whether it was the mapping project at

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Speaker 8: MIT which would go after Jewish owned businesses, or Jewish

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Speaker 8: student organizations or Jewish professors. It's so far from the

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Speaker 8: founding missions of these universities. So I thought this was

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Speaker 8: a topic that resonates with the American people, with everyday Americans.

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Speaker 8: And I'll tell you, I think a lot about the

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Speaker 8: question that I asked. If I asked my constituents, they

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Speaker 8: know how to answer the question correctly. Does calling for

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Speaker 8: the genocide of Jews violate your code of conduct? They

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Speaker 8: will say unequivocally yes, a farmer, a small business worker,

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Speaker 8: and a mom. Something is deeply wrong when university presidents failed.

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Speaker 8: So this book goes into depth about Harvard, Penn, Columbia, MIT,

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Speaker 8: and more. It also puts forth solutions on how to

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Speaker 8: address this. It comes out April fourteenth and you can

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Speaker 8: order it at at least sephonic dot com.

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Speaker 1: I love this, Okay. The book is called Poisoned ivs

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Speaker 1: April fourteenth. It's here's my question. You did such a

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Speaker 1: great job holding these university presidents accountable. And what you

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Speaker 1: uncovered was this anti Semitism, this strain of violence that

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Speaker 1: they were helping foment on these campuses. And given everything

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Speaker 1: you know from these hearings, from your work on this book,

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Speaker 1: and also just your work in Congress, tell me this

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Speaker 1: is the West in danger? I think it is, and

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Speaker 1: I think this is part of it, this whole anti

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Speaker 1: Semitic globalized, the end of fiddle, all of it, It's

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Speaker 1: all part of it. It's a part of a campaign

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Speaker 1: to tear down and destroy the West. And you've been

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Speaker 1: at the forefront of defending the West. What do you

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Speaker 1: think about that?

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Speaker 8: I absolutely agree with you, Scott. I couldn't agree more.

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Speaker 8: And you have been on the front lines as I have,

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Speaker 8: in standing up not only for moral clarity, but for

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Speaker 8: Western civilization. This is a battle about protecting Western civilization

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Speaker 8: and this book talks about that. And what's interesting is

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Speaker 8: I go back to the founding missions of these universities.

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Speaker 8: When you take Harvard, for example, which is my alma mater,

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Speaker 8: it was not like that there when I was an undergraduate.

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Speaker 8: This was an institution that was founded prior to the

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Speaker 8: Revolutionary War, prior to our countries founding. It was founded

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Speaker 8: on moral truths. And the motto of Harvard is very

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Speaker 8: toss meaning truth. But the initial motto in the sixteen

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Speaker 8: hundreds of Harvard was in christo et ECLESII. So truth

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Speaker 8: in Christ and the Church, there is moral truth. And

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Speaker 8: the fact that there is moral equivalency being conducted on

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Speaker 8: these university campuses, it's taking us in the wrong direction

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Speaker 8: away from that moral truth. This is a fight that's

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Speaker 8: not going to be fixed overnight. And I want to

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Speaker 8: give credit to President Trump who put forth incredible executive

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Speaker 8: orders to address this on day one. But we need

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Speaker 8: to address all aspects of this taxpayer funding for our universities,

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Speaker 8: the failed tenure program for professors, as well as feign

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Speaker 8: dollars that are flowing into these universities to undermine Western ideals.

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Speaker 1: Are these universities salvageable redeem at this point? Is the

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Speaker 1: rot too deep? Is it too mangled and tangled inside?

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Speaker 1: I mean, can you ever unravel this because it's it's

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Speaker 1: gotten pretty thick on a lot of these campuses, hasn't it?

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Speaker 8: It goes very deep? And it's not just the presidents.

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Speaker 8: As we know, you can remove the presidents, but you

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Speaker 8: have to address the rot. You know, the professors have

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Speaker 8: becoming increasingly to the left. And we're not talking about,

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Speaker 8: you know, the Democrat Party of our parents and grandparents.

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Speaker 8: We're talking about anti Americanism. I go in depth on

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Speaker 8: that at the Columbia chapter. And we know these universities

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Speaker 8: aren't going to fix themselves. So President Trump correctly withheld

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Speaker 8: taxpayer funds because these schools are not entitled, entitled to

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Speaker 8: harder and taxpayer funds. What I do put forth in

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Speaker 8: the book is schools that are getting it right. So

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Speaker 8: if you look at Vanderbilt, if you look at some

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Speaker 8: of the schools down south, they are addressing this with

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Speaker 8: moral leadership, and you're also seeing matriculation trans skyrocket because

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Speaker 8: of increased interest in those schools. I would also look

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Speaker 8: at the University at Austin, UT that school that was

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Speaker 8: founded in twenty twenty one, that stands for pro American

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Speaker 8: Western values and really the freedom of inquiry and not

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Speaker 8: this warped situation that's happening at these IVY leagues. I

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Speaker 8: also point out the one IVY league, Dartmouth, and this

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Speaker 8: is a credit to the president of Dartmouth, Sion Leah Beilock,

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Speaker 8: who handled this correctly on her campus. That was really

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Speaker 8: the only IVY league that did this. So it's going

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Speaker 8: to take a deep, deep dell to fix this over time.

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Speaker 8: But I also think it's important to highlight who is

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Speaker 8: getting it right.

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Speaker 1: At least. Deefonic is our guest. She has a book

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Speaker 1: coming out in a couple of weeks called Poisoned IVS,

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Speaker 1: and I could not recommend it any more highly than

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Speaker 1: I am right now. This is going to be a

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Speaker 1: must read for everybody who cares about higher education in

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Speaker 1: America and the future of Western civilization. At least, let

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Speaker 1: me ask you a question. We have seen four major

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Speaker 1: Islamic terror attacks just in the last couple of weeks.

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Speaker 1: Are we in for more of this? Have we allowed

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Speaker 1: Radical Islam to infiltrate this? We have the Department of

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Speaker 1: Homeland Security shutdown because of Democrats, We have these terrorist

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Speaker 1: attacks going on, We're fighting I ran overseas. Can we

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Speaker 1: expect more of this? Are you concerned about that?

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Speaker 17: Well?

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Speaker 8: I'm very concerned, and I think there's a direct line

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Speaker 8: of what happened on these elite campuses after October seventh

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Speaker 8: to the increase in terrorist attacks today. There is a

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Speaker 8: direct line with that. If you look at whether it's

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Speaker 8: the terrorist attack in New York City where you had

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Speaker 8: an ied from a pro ISIS terrorist, or whether it's

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Speaker 8: the terrorist attack in Michigan. I'm deeply concerned, and I

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Speaker 8: want to highlight a policy issue that is in front

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Speaker 8: of us today. The fact that funding for DHS is

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Speaker 8: shut down because of Democrats shows that they are not

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Speaker 8: serious about protecting the homeland. That funding is critical, whether

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Speaker 8: it's TSA or whether it is DHS. I'm also very

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Speaker 8: concerned if you look at the foreign visas for students

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Speaker 8: on these campuses, if you look at SJP, for example,

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Speaker 8: the foreign funding nexus, it is fomenting the anti Americanism

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Speaker 8: and there is a direct line in terms of the

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Speaker 8: moral equivalency and frankly, the embrace of Hamas and other

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Speaker 8: terrorist organizations.

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Speaker 1: At least you've got a book coming out. You're leaving

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Speaker 1: Congress sadly, but long future ahead of you. What's coming next.

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Speaker 1: I know you want to sell books, and we're going

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Speaker 1: to do everything we can do to help you with that.

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Speaker 1: A lot of us want to see at least back

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Speaker 1: in the public policy sphere. You may not have any

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Speaker 1: announcements today, but please assure us You're not going anywhere, right.

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Speaker 8: I'm not going anywhere. I am up for this fight.

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Speaker 8: This is my first of what I hope and know

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Speaker 8: will be many books. This is a deep dive. This

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Speaker 8: is not about me. This is about what is happening

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Speaker 8: at our nation schools. Poison IVYS. It comes out April fourteenth.

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Speaker 8: I'm looking forward to continuing to stand up for moral

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Speaker 8: clarity and our America First values. And I appreciate your friendship, Scott.

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Speaker 8: I've known you for over twenty years and so proud

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Speaker 8: of your success.

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Speaker 1: Well, at least we're proud of you, and you are

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Speaker 1: a great warrior for the West, a great warrior for

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Speaker 1: the conservative cause. We are excited to read your book.

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Speaker 1: We can't wait to buy it, and we will as

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Speaker 1: soon as it comes out. We're going to devour that

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Speaker 1: and talk about it on the air at least. Dephonic

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Speaker 1: from New York. Thanks for coming on the Scott Jennings Show.

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Speaker 1: You're welcome anytime. Thank you all right, have a great day.

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Speaker 1: A quick word by the way from our friends at IFCJ,

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Speaker 1: the International Fellowship for Christians and Jews. They are putting

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Speaker 1: together the emergency supplies that people in the Holy Land

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Speaker 1: need right now because they are under constant rocket attacks

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Speaker 1: as this Operation Epic Fury and Operation Roaring Lion continues.

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Speaker 1: This is stuff like food, first aid, emergency essentials that

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Speaker 1: go into these bomb shelters and they go to security

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Speaker 1: personnel who are helping out at the hospitals and in

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Speaker 1: the emergency rooms. It's the most vulnerable in Israel that

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Speaker 1: need our help right now. The sick, the elderly, families

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Speaker 1: with children. They depend on IFCJ, They depend on the

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Speaker 1: Fellowship for help in these critical, dangerous times. I hope

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Speaker 1: that you will join me and join Christians and Jews

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Speaker 1: around the world in praying for the protection of Israel.

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Speaker 1: Stand with Israel in prayer today. Go to SUPPORTIFCJ dot org.

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Speaker 1: That is support IFCJ dot org. I'm gonna do it myself.

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Speaker 1: I'm encouraging all of my friends and family to do it.

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Speaker 1: We need the support for Israel. SUPPORTIFCJ dot org. Little

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Speaker 1: healthcare talk. When we come back, it's Scott Jennings on Salem.

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Speaker 1: Stay with us.

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Speaker 11: You want to drive a leftist crazy, tell the truth

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Speaker 11: and keep smiling.

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Speaker 5: This is the Scott Jennings Show.

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Speaker 1: The Happy Warrior is here on Wednesday, March eighteenth, quick

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Speaker 1: note in breaking news here to the Scott Jennings Show,

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Speaker 1: the Federal Reserve Chairman Powell has just announced there will

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Speaker 1: not be any rate cuts at this time, so the

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Speaker 1: Fed holding rates steady. Let's have a little healthcare talk

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Speaker 1: to close out the show today. Now, if you've been

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Speaker 1: watching any healthcare debates in Washington at all, you know

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Speaker 1: right now President Trump is not the biggest fan of

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Speaker 1: insurance companies. His Great American Health Plan, in fact, is

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Speaker 1: all about addressing what he calls the health insurance scam.

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Speaker 1: Here's the President, by the way, recently on Air Force

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Speaker 1: one and Cut seventeen.

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Speaker 5: I don't want to give the insurance companies any money.

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Speaker 1: They've been ripping off the public for years. And speaking

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Speaker 1: of insurance companies ripping off the public, the examples continue

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Speaker 1: to pile up showing why President Trump is right to

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Speaker 1: take on these giant insurers. Coming on the show right

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Speaker 1: now is Terrence Romatar from the American Ambulance Association to

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Speaker 1: talk about the ambulance crisis facing rural America because insurance

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Speaker 1: companies aren't paying the ambulance bills. Terrence, welcome to the

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Speaker 1: show and tell us what is going on with these

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Speaker 1: insurance companies and ambulance service coverage. We need to know.

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Speaker 20: Yeah, first of all, Scott, thanks for having me on.

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Speaker 20: Terrence Ramatar with the American Ambulance Association, and we're dealing

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Speaker 20: with this crisis state by state across the country. What

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Speaker 20: happens today is when you're having a medical urgency, you're

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Speaker 20: not calling the health insurance companies to find out what

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Speaker 20: ambulance service is in network. So unlike when you have

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Speaker 20: a non emergency situation you need a pediatrist, you would

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Speaker 20: normally go to their website or maybe call them and

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Speaker 20: figure out which pediatrist is a network. When you're having

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Speaker 20: a medical emergency, you're calling nine to one one. The

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Speaker 20: health insurance companies expect you to find an in network

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Speaker 20: ambulance service. That's not how this country is built. That's

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Speaker 20: not how first responder services are built. So we respond,

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Speaker 20: we take care of the medical emergency. When that medical

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Speaker 20: emergency is over, we have to submit those charges to

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Speaker 20: health insurance companies because most of these services are considered

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Speaker 20: out of network. We're not the typical brick and mortar

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Speaker 20: health facilities. They don't reimburse the ambulance services and instead

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Speaker 20: they pass the bill onto the patient.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so let me make sure I understand I'm a

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Speaker 1: lay person in all of this. So the first responders

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Speaker 1: show up, they get the patients to the hospital, and

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Speaker 1: then the insurance companies say, no, we're not paying for

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Speaker 1: the ambulance service. I mean, this seems crazy to me.

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Speaker 1: How else you're going to get to the hospital? Is

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Speaker 1: that what happens?

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Speaker 20: Absolutely, So they're paying an arbitrary amount what they determine

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Speaker 20: is necessary. A lot of times that is a fraction

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Speaker 20: of the bill, Scott, in your state, in Kentucky, we're

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Speaker 20: looking at we're looking at data across the state. They're

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Speaker 20: paying less than half of the bill, and in some

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Speaker 20: cases they're paying ten and fifteen percent of the bill

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Speaker 20: and sending the majority of the bill to the patient.

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Speaker 20: So now you're out of the hospital. We saved your life,

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Speaker 20: and now you're dealing with a large bill that your

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Speaker 20: health plan won't cover. And so that leads the ambulance

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Speaker 20: services to try to find other ways for funding to

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Speaker 20: make sure that we can get there on time, that

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Speaker 20: we can have decent response times, that we're there in

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Speaker 20: time to save your life. And so a lot of

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Speaker 20: that burden then goes to the taxpayers in counties that

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Speaker 20: can afford it, and if they can afford it, that

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Speaker 20: comes out in terms of response times. So there's not

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Speaker 20: enough ambulances on the road, there's not enough personnel. We

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Speaker 20: can't pay our workers or EMTs and paramedics that are

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Speaker 20: doing that heroic job. So we are fighting state by

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Speaker 20: state as an industry to fix this problem.

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Speaker 1: Well that was my next question, is what are we

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Speaker 1: going to do about this? I've read that in many

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Speaker 1: states you do have state legislators and people like you

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Speaker 1: who are putting together coalitions to fight back against the

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Speaker 1: insurance companies. Tell us about the fight this, I guess

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Speaker 1: is really going on across the country, isn't it Is?

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Speaker 7: It is?

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Speaker 20: And you know it's a David and Goliath situation right

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Speaker 20: where AMUL service providers. We're small as compared to the

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Speaker 20: big health plans. We don't have this lobby, but we

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Speaker 20: are introducing legislation. So today there's almost twenty states that

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Speaker 20: have passed legislation to ensure that the health plans are

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Speaker 20: paying the cost of those services, whether they're paying the

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Speaker 20: rates that are set by the county or they're paying

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Speaker 20: some minimal allowable rate, but they can't continue to pay

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Speaker 20: a fraction of the costs. So right now, looking across

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Speaker 20: the states, there's probably another six to eight states that

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Speaker 20: have legislation moving down the pipeline in a good way.

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Speaker 20: We've got Georgia moving, We've got Tennessee moving, Montana, Wisconsin.

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Speaker 20: We're working on other states. We're working in Kentucky. We're

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Speaker 20: working at Alabama to pass legislation to protect the first

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Speaker 20: responder services, but more so protect the patients to ensure

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Speaker 20: that they have access to emergency care when their loved

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Speaker 20: one is facing a diary medical emergency.

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Speaker 1: A voice you're hearing Terrence Ramadar from the American Ambulance

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Speaker 1: Association bottom line health insurance companies right now not being

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Speaker 1: very good actors when it comes to getting you into

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Speaker 1: an ambulance and off to the hospital. We got to

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Speaker 1: get that fixed. That's what Terrence is doing. Terrence. American

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Speaker 1: Ambulance is at ambulance dot org if you want to

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Speaker 1: check it out online. We've come to the end of

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Speaker 1: the show. Thanks for listening. Thank you, Arizona. We had

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Speaker 1: great shows out here. It's common sense for the American people.

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Speaker 1: We'll see you tomorrow.